Story 

  An Arab suffering in the desert from extreme thirst recited:

        'Would that before my death

        I could one day enjoy my wish

        That a river's waves might strike my knee

        And I might fill my water-bag.'

  In the same manner another traveller lost himself in an extensive

region having neither any strength nor food left but he possessed some

money and roamed about and the road leading him nowhere he perished

from exhaustion. Some people afterwards discovered his corpse with the

money in front of it and the following written on the ground:

      If possessed of all the Ja'feri gold,

      It will avail nothing to a hungry man.

      To a poor man burnt in the desert

      Boiled turnips are more valuable than pure silver.